Cyclist who showed Trump the finger gets the boot

The woman cyclist, who was recently seen gesturing to President Trump's Motorcade, has been fired by her company. The company did so because they were associated with the government and such a picture could damage their business.

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The woman was fired for violating company’s social media policy. (Source: AFP News Agency/Twitter)

Recently, a photo of a woman cyclist riding beside US President Donald Trump’s Motorcade, showing him the middle finger, had gone viral on social media and caught a lot of attention. The moment was captured by a White House photographer, who was travelling along with the president when he was returning from his golf course in Sterling, Virginia.

Soon, the hashtag ‘#2020’ followed with a series of jokes and tweets with many liberals actually celebrating the incident. However, the reaction to the photograph, turned unfortunate for Juli Briskman, the woman in the picture. Her employer, government contractor Akima LLC, did not seem very impressed with the action of their employee and chose to fire her over the same.

In an interview with HuffPost, Briskman stated that she, “was stunned that someone had taken a picture of her giving Trump the middle finger.” Once she found out about the circulation of the photograph, she chose to inform the HR department of her company and explain the incident to them. However, soon her bosses called her into a meeting and informed her that she had violated company’s social media policy by posting the photo as her profile picture on Facebook and Twitter.

“They said, ‘We’re separating from you,‘” said Briskman. “Basically, you cannot have ‘lewd’ or ‘obscene’ things in your social media. So they were calling flipping him off obscene,” reported HuffPost.

Briskman, who tried to reason with the company emphasising that she wasn’t on duty when the incident occurred and that her social media pages don’t mention her employer, was informed that because her company was a government contractor, her picture could ‘hurt their business’.